10 Pro.... I had it on dual boot for a while, but the SSD I had it on crapped out on me, so....just doin the whole thing.

knock on wood, my windows 10 pro 64bit has been doing good, i had some issues on day one that caused me to kill my motherboards bios chip......windows crashed during a bios update right after it deleted the bios. but since then i have had no issues with it, i cant really blame this display driver acting up on windows since i dont know 100% that is the cause....but it seems pretty suspicious that it started acting up after this last windows update it did.

I never let Winblowz install Geforce drivers. I use DDU and download straight from NVidia. THere is a way to stop windows from dl'ing them, with a registry edit. also, disable windows driver enforcement if you want to manually install them.

I Dled Heaven bench mark last night and ran it to see what my new card could do, monitor temps and see if it would suffer from coil whine, temps never went higher than 61c. but fans where at full speed, my card is the GTX 970 FTW+ boost clock is listed as 1367 but EVGa's own tool showed my boost as 1405, I have not OCed the card at all, I only tweaked the fan speed profile to keep the card cool while playing FO4. is this normal or just a glitch? I am running Win10, I did the free upgrade from Win7 pro X64

I Dled Heaven bench mark last night and ran it to see what my new card could do, monitor temps and see if it would suffer from coil whine, temps never went higher than 61c. but fans where at full speed, my card is the GTX 970 FTW+ boost clock is listed as 1367 but EVGa's own tool showed my boost as 1405, I have not OCed the card at all, I only tweaked the fan speed profile to keep the card cool while playing FO4. is this normal or just a glitch? I am running Win10, I did the free upgrade from Win7 pro X64

I Dled Heaven bench mark last night and ran it to see what my new card could do, monitor temps and see if it would suffer from coil whine, temps never went higher than 61c. but fans where at full speed, my card is the GTX 970 FTW+ boost clock is listed as 1367 but EVGa's own tool showed my boost as 1405, I have not OCed the card at all, I only tweaked the fan speed profile to keep the card cool while playing FO4. is this normal or just a glitch? I am running Win10, I did the free upgrade from Win7 pro X64

Glitch? You mean it boosting over the boost clock? No, that is normal.

Your temps are fine too. As for the fans being at 100% that is normally set in the bios of the card, based on temps. You were right to create your own profile to deal with it. You can mod the bios later, and apply most of the settings that will give you the best performance for your card. These can be your fans, power limit, voltage, etc.

You can take a look at this, it will help explain most of the settings and how to go about modding.

So there's no other way to really stress my card? Firestrike isn't on sale and I did loop the Heaven benchmark for two hours but no gray screens. I just find it funny that it gave me a grey screen on a 7 year old game. I did lower the memory clock a bit though, I think 3580 was pretty overkill.

How easy is it to change my max. voltage with Maxwell BIOS tweaker btw?

So there's no other way to really stress my card? Firestrike isn't on sale and I did loop the Heaven benchmark for two hours but no gray screens. I just find it funny that it gave me a grey screen on a 7 year old game. I did lower the memory clock a bit though, I think 3580 was pretty overkill.

How easy is it to change my max. voltage with Maxwell BIOS tweaker btw?

Any of the benchmarks at the highest settings will put stress on your GPU, I've just found the FS ultra graphics test 1 and 2 are the best way to find any weakness in the overclock settings you're trying to run.

As for gaming.....every game is different. One game may not like any overclock at all, where another will let you go nearly as high as the card will allow. That's strictly on a game per game basis. The only clock you can be sure will work with EVERY game you play, is stock clocks.